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I don't defend it but the specifics never bothered me. They cheated because their cars didn't meet new emissions standards. They were fine by the standards of t
by SoftTalker 1y ago
I don't defend it but the specifics never bothered me. They cheated because their cars didn't meet new emissions standards. They were fine by the standards of the year before. So a bureaucracy just declared that a legal level of emissions was now illegal.
In my mind it's like suddenly declaring that blue cars are illegal, and they made a color-shifting car that is blue except when the authorities are looking at it.
It is wrong in the sense that it is normalizion of deviance, however. We live in a society and if we don't like a law or regulation the correct response is to get it legally changed, not to ignore it and cheat.
- estearum 1y agoI didn't say you are defending it. I'm saying that "companies do bad things sometimes" is not a full description of the Tesla phenomenon that people take issue with.
- dahinds 1y ago> They cheated because their cars didn't meet new emissions standards. They were fine by the standards of the year before. > So a bureaucracy just declared that a legal level of emissions was now illegal. That is not at all what happened and not how emissions standards are deployed. The EPA's Tier 2 standards were finalized in 2000 to phase in during the 2004-2008 model years [1]. [1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/02/10/00-19/control-of-air-pollution-from-new-motor-vehicles-tier-2-motor-vehicle-emissions-standards-and https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/02/10/00-19/c...
- triceratops 1y ago> They cheated because their cars didn't meet new emissions standards Anything beyond the first two words in that sentence is irrelevant.